ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY-DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 1995 REVIEW Committee on Environmental Management Technologies Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the This report has been reviewed by a group other than the authors The work was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Contract Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 96-67829 Additional copies of this report are available from: National Academy Press 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Box 285 Washington, D.C. 20055 800-624-6242 202-334-3313 (in the Washington Metropolitan Area) B722 Copyright 1996 by the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America Cover: View of radioactive waste inside an underground storage tank at the Hanford COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT EDWIN E. KINTNER, Chair, GPU Nuclear Corp. (retired), Norwich, Vermont MELVIN W. CARTER, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (emeritus) PAUL DEJONGHE, Study Centre for Nuclear Research, Mol, Belgium MARSHALL E. DRUMMOND, Eastern Washington University, Cheney Staff CARL A. ANDERSON, Director, BRWM *Chair, until September 1995. SUBCOMMITTEE ON DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING PETER B. MYERS, Chair, Consultant, Silver Spring, Maryland PATRICIA ANN BAISDEN, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, SOL BURSTEIN, Wisconsin Electric Power Milwaukee, Wisconsin (retired) JOSEPH S BYRD, University of South Carolina, Columbia BRUCE W. CLEMENS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville FRANK P. CRIMI, Lockheed Environmental Systems, Saratoga, California SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONTAMINANT PLUMES MELVIN W. CARTER, Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta (emeritus) JOHN C. FOUNTAIN, State University of New York, Buffalo LYNNE M. PRESLO, Earth Tech, Berkeley, California CURTIS C. TRAVIS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee SUBCOMMITTEE ON LANDFILLS C. HERB WARD, Chair, Rice University, Houston, Texas KENT D. BAUGH, OHM Remediation Services Corporation, Pleasanton, California RICHARD A. CONWAY, Union Carbide Corporation, South Charleston, West Virginia Harrisburg FREDERICK G. POHLAND, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania VERN C. ROGERS, Rogers & Associates Engineering Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah SUBCOMMITTEE ON HIGH-LEVEL WASTE IN TANKS B. JOHN GARRICK, Chair, PLG, Inc., Newport Beach, California VICKI M. BIER, University of Wisconsin, Madison ALLEN G. CROFF, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee MARTIN J. STEINDLER, Argonne National Laboratory, Downers Grove, Illinois (retired) CLAUDE G. SOMBRET, Consultant, Villeneuve Les Avignon, France SUBCOMMITTEE ON MIXED WASTES PAUL DEJONGHE, Chair, Study Centre for Nuclear Research, Mol, Belgium ANN N. CLARKE, Eckenfelder, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee GARY A. DAVIS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville JURGEN H. EXNER, JHE Technology Systems, Inc., Alamo, California ROBERT D. WATERS, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico Subcommittee Staff KARYANIL T. THOMAS, Study Director |